In his New Year’s message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his country would do “everything” to end Russia’s war of aggression by 2025. He prepared his countrymen for a strenuous year.
“May 2025 be our year. The Year of Ukraine. We know that peace has not been given to us, but we will do everything we can to stop Russia and end the war,” Zelensky said in his speech broadcast on online networks on New Year’s Eve (video above).
“In the coming year we will have to fight every day for a sufficiently strong Ukraine. Because only such a Ukraine will be respected and heard. Both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” Zelensky continued in his New Year’s message.
Zelenskyj hopes for American President Trump
Regarding the inauguration of newly-elected US President Donald Trump on January 20, the Ukrainian president said he had “no doubt that the new US president is willing and able” to “create peace” and “resist the aggression” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. .
Criticism of the formation of new brigades
Meanwhile, independent military experts accuse the political and military leadership of making mistakes in the formation of new troops. Journalist Yuri Butussov described the case of the new 155th mechanized brigade, a prestigious cooperation project with France, on the portal “Zensor.net”.
Soldiers have deserted, drones are missing
Even before the brigade came to the front, 1,700 soldiers deserted – 50 of them probably during training in France. When the unit, with a nominal number of 5,800 troops, deployed to eastern Ukraine near the city of Pokrovsk, it lacked drones and drone defenses.
The result was high losses, Butussov wrote. He accused President Zelensky, Defense Minister Rustem Umyerov and Commander-in-Chief Olexander Syrsky of poor organization. The army has not yet responded to the allegations.
Source: Krone
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